Teaching Manners to Build a Community - MCC Theater's new drama focuses on a one-of-a-kind charm school

MCC Theater's new drama focuses on a one-of-a-kind charm school---Northlight Theatre's artistic director, BJ Jones, was so taken with a 2012 Chicago Tribune story about Gloria Allen, an African-American, sexagenarian transwoman teaching an etiquette class for LGBTQ youth, he asked his friend, playwright Philip Dawkins, to pen a show about it. But Dawkins was initially skeptical. "I agreed that it would make a great p…

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